Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will IDE disks impact SCSI or system performance? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990518114909.19888B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <37416684.64A54C87@partitur.se>
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If you can get a motherboard that supports Ultra-DMA IDE then one or two large IDE UDMA drives will be very fast and not impact the SCSI system too much. Julian On Tue, 18 May 1999, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > Our main internal server, FreeBSD 3.2b with five large SCSI disks, > running vinum and softupdates etc... It fast, and we're happy. It runs > both filesharing (mainly NFS) and applications. > > Now some guys here are interested in having a large archive with > not-so-important data (read mp3 files...) and suggest a large IDE disk > for almost no money at all. > > My question: will an IDE disk in a now SCSI-only system impact > performance for the rest of the system? > > Thanks! > Palle > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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